Troll Update

The posts that were hacked by trolls are:

  1. Rauner’s Assault on Freedom;
  2. Naked Men;
  3. Social Engineering.

My bet is that it all started with Naked Men, which is bad because that’s seriously the title of the novel I’m working on in my research right now. What, I can’t mention my research now?

Strangely, this never happened with my very popular post on naked Israeli soldiers.

5 responses to “Troll Update”

  1. David P. Bellamy Avatar

    Those seem not to be the only three.

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    1. Clarissa Avatar

      They are the ones “infected” and now Google is categorizing the entire site as dangerous because of them. So annoying!

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  2. Pen Avatar

    And the book isn’t even about naked men! Based on the topic, I thought it was more of a psychological nakedness.

    Just out of curiosity, what is the procedure for un-infecting the site?

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    1. Clarissa Avatar

      I had to contact Google, upload their file to my site to prove it’s mine, delete the posts that were falsely reported as infected, and ask Google to analyze the blog for malware. They say there will be a response within 72 hours, so let’s wait and see.

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  3. Laie Avatar
    Laie

    Hold on a second.

    I’m working for a webhoster and in my experience, Google’s Safe Browsing Reports are very reliable. Getting such a phishing alert means that someone has found a way of adding stuff alongside yours. Typically that’s not trolls trying to make your life miserable; they only want to host their scam pages. While they don’t really care about any collateral damage they may cause, it’s in their interest to be inconspicuous.

    At the very least, look for files that have been changed in the last week or so. If in doubt, contact your hosting provider.

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